Shutter attachment.



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` w/TNEss UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE vJACOB EPPRIGHT, OF MANOR, TEXAS.

SHOTTIER" ATTACHMENT.`

SPECIFICATION forming part of 'Letters Patent N o. 665,733., dated January 8, 1.901. Application iiled October 2,1900. Serial No. 81,784. (N o model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE JACOB EPP- RIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Manor, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Shutter Attachment, Of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose Of this invention is to provide means for holding the slats of window-shutters open, the invention being applicable to those shutters which have a number of hori-` zontally-arran ged slats pivoted and connected with a bar which may be moved to move the slats to Open or closed position.

This invention is the disclosure of several forms of the invent-ion, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had tO the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

, Figure l is a front viewvof a window-shutter to which my invention is shown as applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged'vertical section showing the invention in use. Fig. 3 is a horizontal plan view with parts in sectionlon the line 8 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a vertical section Of a modified form of the invention, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a further-modification.'

TheI device comprises a spacer, which is pivotally mounted on the Slat-bar in position to be moved between two of the slats when they are open and which serves when in such position to prevent the movement of the slats on their pivots, and consequently to prevent the slats from closing. Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, this spacer is indicated by the letter ct andl is there shownto be constructed of a piece of wire bent tO form two horizontal parts at its top and bottom, which respectively engage `the adjacent faces of two of the slats of the Window-shutter. This spacer is pivotally mounted through the medium of a sleeve or other fastening b On the slat-bar. In the drawings the Slat-bar is indicated by the letter c and the slats by the letter d. N ow it is clear that the spacer may be moved to the position shown in Fig. 2, soas to hold the slats from movement, and since all of the slats are connected with the Slat-bar the whole series of slats is held. It is also clearthat byA moving the spacer to the position indicated at the right-hand side of Fig.. 1 the slats will be free to swing to closed position.

Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in vwhich the spacer a is arranged to straddle two contiguous slats and to engage the. distant. faces thereof, as contradistinguished from engaging the near faces. With this form of the invention the principle is precisely the same as that before described.

Fig. 5 shows the spacer a2 arranged to act in the same manner as in Figs. l, 2, and 3; In Fig. 5, however, the spacer is shown to be constructed of an unbroken metallic plate rather than of a piece Of wire bent into the requisite form.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenti l. A shutter attachment, comprising a spacer mounted on the shutter removably to engage between the side faces ofv two or more slats, tO hold the slats open in the manner specified.

2. A shutter attachment, comprising a spacer pivotally mounted on the Slat-bar and arranged to engage two or more of the slats to prevent the slats from closing.

3. A shutter attachment, comprising a spacer constructed Of a length of wire to form two horizontally-disposed parts, the spacer being movable between two of the slats and being pivotally mounted On the Slat-bar, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE JACOB EPPRIGHT.

Witnesses:

H. H. HARRIS, L. J. LUEDEOKE. 

